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• Pop Artist Ed Ruscha Collaborating with andSons on $295 Holiday Chocolate Bar

  10-11-2025 23:29 via artnews.com
  At first, Ed Ruscha’s collaboration with the Los Angeles-based boutique chocolatiers andSons might seem like an unusual pairing. Until, that is, you remember that Ruscha is the creator of the fragrant, ephemeral Chocolate Room installation from 1970, which was more recently re-created for his retrospective “Ed Ruscha / Now Then” at the Museum of Moden Art (2023) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2024).The original Chocolate Room was created for the American pavilion at
  
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• Patti Smith Features on New Rosalía Album with Rousing Message

  10-11-2025 22:54 via artnews.com
  Rosalía’s fourth studio album, the divinely affected LUX, unfolds in four parts and 13 languages, with several choirs contributing to this miraculous feat, an avant-garde chart-topper. A sonic scripture of desire and ruin, it accordingly invokes God and, at one point, an art world deity: Patti Smith.A 1976 interview recording of Smith closes the flamenco ballad “La Yugular.” In it, Rosalía sings about a love she’d destroy hell for. Smith, whose transcendent
  
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• Mindy Seu’s Latest Lecture, ‘A Sexual History of the Internet,’ Is a Grand Financial Experiment

  10-11-2025 22:46 via artnews.com
  Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my slime.Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but most experiences on the internet resolve like this: into a sales pitch. Then you scroll to the next video or click to the next post, and it happens again. When desig
  
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• Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra seeks President & Chief Executive Officer

  10-11-2025 22:26 via artsjournal.com
  Reporting to the Board of Directors, the President and Chief Executive Officer who will provide positive leadership and vision to ensure the Kalamazoo Symphony’s organizational, financial, and artistic success. They will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of the Orchestra’s operations, including strategic planning, budgeting and financial management, artistic administration and some program planning, contract negotiations and labor relations, marketing and public relation
  
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• 10 Works to Know in “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection” at the Met

  10-11-2025 22:12 via artnews.com
  Last May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that photography collector Artur Walther, via his Walther Family Foundation, had made a promised gift to the museum of more than 6,500 works. Now, as a foretaste of a larger exhibition to come in 2028, 40 pieces from the gift are on view in the show “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection.”Walther, who has been collecting photographs and time-based media for 30 years, is best known for the breadth of his hold
  
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• African Artist Collective Calls on Museums to Rectify Their Debt to Plantation Workers

  10-11-2025 21:45 via artnews.com
  In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land where they are located, and taking steps to deepen their collections of art by women and artists of color. But a collective of artists and agricultural workers headquartered at a Congolese plantation is calling on them to do more, saying that these efforts “have had surprisingly little impact on the communities whose labor financed m
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Ceramic Vessel Found in Ancient Pompeiian Canteen

  10-11-2025 21:22 via artnews.com
  A nearly 2,000-year-old ceramic vessel from Egypt has been found during conservation efforts in Pompeii, the Roman city destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. The discovery, published by the Pompeii Archaeological Park’s online journal, offers a window into Egyptian influence on Roman culture of the time.The situla, a bucket-shaped container, was uncovered during the conservation of the thermopolium of Regio V, once a working- and middle-class area of the city. Thermopolia were es
  
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• Protesters Storm Campus of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art, Forcing Abrupt End to Preview

  10-11-2025 20:58 via artnews.com
  After more than five years in development, Nigeria’s glitzy Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City was set to host a series of preview events this week ahead of a grand public opening on Tuesday. Instead, it was met with protests.On Sunday, just hours before the first preview was set to begin, demonstrators gathered at the entrance to the museum campus, demanding to be allowed in. When denied, the crowd entered through another gate, hurling insults and protests at the foreign gue
  
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• How Journalism Media Lost The American Public

  10-11-2025 20:31 via harpers.org
  
  “I actually think that the decline of trust has to do with newspapers’ becoming more responsible, more accurate. Nobody I know would trade today’s newspaper for one from 1960.” – Harper’s
  
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• Instant Translation Is Like Magic. But Might We Be Losing Something?

  10-11-2025 20:04 via theatlantic.com
  
  As people embrace these transformative tools, they risk eroding capacities and experiences that embody values other than seamlessness and efficiency. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Crushing Debt Of Arts Schools

  10-11-2025 19:40 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. However, the fine print tells a different story: crushing debt, unreliable outcomes, and a mismatch between what’s promised and what’s delivered. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Expert Critics Look At This year’s Booker Finalists

  10-11-2025 19:21 via theconversation.com
  
  Academic critics read closely this year’s Booker Prize finalists:Each novel has emotional temperature and structural ambition: domestic quietudes stretched into myth, migration histories turned intimate, masculinity stripped to bone, love sagas operating as cultural x-rays. A list that prizes atmosphere over spectacle. – The Conversation
  
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• Dana Awartani Will Represent Saudi Arabia at the 2026 Venice Biennale

  10-11-2025 19:08 via artnews.com
  Palestinian Saudi artist Dana Awartani will represent Saudi Arabia at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Her pavilion will be curated by Antonia Carver, director of Art Jameel, with assistance from Hafsa Alkhudairi.Awartani has been a fixture of the international biennial circuit in recent years, earning acclaim for her material interpretations of conflict in the Middle East. Her practice draws on Saudi Arabia’s craft and cultural legacies, and she collaborates regularly with local artisans or disp
  
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• Tania Willard Wins $71,000 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s Top Art Prize

  10-11-2025 19:05 via artnews.com
  On Saturday, Tania Willard, a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist based in Neskonlith, British Columbia, was named the winner of the annual Sobey Art Award, which comes with CAD$100,000 ($71,000). The announcement took place at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.The award was launched in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation in order to promote and support contemporary Canadian artists. The five shortlisted artists—Tarralik Duffy, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, Sandra Brewster, Swapnaa Tamhan
  
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• Enough With Those Claims Culture Has Become Less Creative. Look Around!

  10-11-2025 19:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Internet didn’t destroy monoculture. It exposed the fact that monoculture was always a bottleneck, popped the cork, and let the contents fizz out.  – ARTnews
  
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• How To Build an Imagination: The Books Of Childhood

  10-11-2025 18:37 via equator.org
  
  We learn from stories. Our ancestors were raised on myths about their ancestors, tales about their saviours, emperors and lawgivers, and, eventually, novels about any number of times and places, most of them named.  – Equator
  
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• Fired Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sues Over Her Dismissal

  10-11-2025 18:37 via nytimes.com
  
  In her lawsuit, which was filed in Pennsylvania state court, the former director, Sasha Suda, contends that she was fired “without a valid basis” after negotiations over the terms of her departure with the museum’s board of trustees had reached an impasse. – The New York Times
  
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• Fighting The Algorithms: Tips For Discovering New Music

  10-11-2025 18:21 via nytimes.com
  
  “For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to uncover new music. Not new releases, not new songs like the ones I already like, but music that’s new to me, by artists I haven’t encountered before.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Music Education Should Resist Conformity

  10-11-2025 18:01 via thestrad.com
  
  We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise, streamline, and compare ourselves globally, we risk erasing the very differences that make human creativity, and particularly music, so rich. – The Strad
  
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• Sasha Suda Was Investigated by Philadelphia Art Museum Before Being Dismissed as Director

  10-11-2025 17:41 via artnews.com
  Sasha Suda was investigated by the Philadelphia Art Museum prior to her dismissal as director and CEO last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.The nature of the investigation remains unclear, as does the unspecified “cause” that was mentioned in an email to Suda that reportedly confirmed her ouster. But the Inquirer said it had confirmed the existence of the investigation with Mark E. Rubenstein, a member of the board’s executive committee. Rubenstein said the investig
  
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• Sasha Suda Sues Philadelphia Art Museum After Being Dismissed as Director

  10-11-2025 17:41 via artnews.com
  Sasha Suda has sued the Philadelphia Art Museum after being dismissed last week as director and CEO of the Pennsylvania institution, according to the New York Times.Per the Times, the suit alleges that Suda was accused by board members of “misusing museum funds for personal gain,” something that appears to have been a component of an investigation led prior to her dismissal.Suda was investigated prior to her dismissal as director and CEO last week, according to the Philadelphia Inqui
  
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• @100: Remembering Charles Mackerras’ Impact On English Musical Life

  10-11-2025 17:40 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  Mackerras had a major impact on British musical life, whether as Music Director of English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, working with major symphony orchestras, or conducting smaller groups such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. – Gramophone
  
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• Louvre Museum Rolls Out Emergency Security Measures Following Heist

  10-11-2025 17:37 via artnews.com
  Nearly a month after the theft of the French crown jewels that captured global attention, the Louvre Museum announced several emergency security measures.On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Louvre Museum met to discuss the emergency measures concerning the museum’s security. The meeting came at the request of French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, and was chaired by the museum’s director, Laurence des Cars.According to a release from last week, the emergency measures were bro
  
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• Washington National Opera Considers Leaving The Kennedy Center

  10-11-2025 17:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaving the Kennedy Center is a possible scenario after a collapse in box office revenue and “shattered” donor confidence in the wake of Trump’s takeover, said Francesca Zambello. – The Guardian
  
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• The Trump Administration Keeps Using Norman Rockwell’s Imagery, And His Family Is Fed Up

  10-11-2025 17:00 via msn.com
  
  “It’s important to us that younger generations know what the work stood for and don’t get some false impression from these decontextualized samplings — and we don’t want it to be associated with what the Department of Homeland Security is doing.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Judson Memorial Church Is Fighting Fascism by Remaking a Famed—and Controversial—Art Show About the US Flag

  10-11-2025 16:53 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Exactly 55 years ago this week, three artists—Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon Hendricks—came together to mount “The People’s Flag Show” at Judson Memorial Church in New York’s Greenwich Village. The exhibition was meant both to protest the Vietnam War and to think through the meaning of the U
  
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• George Condo Departs Hauser & Wirth, J. M. W. Turner May Have Been Neurodivergent, and More: Morning Links for November 10, 2025

  10-11-2025 16:34 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesMOVING CONDO. Galleries Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt will take joint representation of artist George Condo, ARTnews reports. The deal means that Condo will no longer be represented by Hauser & Wirth, which first started working with the artist in late 2019. Condo began showing with Sprüth Magers cofounder Monika Sprüth in 1984, around a year after opening Monika Sprüth Gallery. Condo was represented by Skarstedt from 2004 to 2019, before he joined Ha
  
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• It’s Actually Not So Hard To Make Your Movie Sets Accessible

  10-11-2025 16:30 via msn.com
  
  And it benefits literally everyone, advocates say, including the audience. “If everyone feels like this is a safe set and they can do their best work, the work will just be better.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Thomas S. Kaplan Is Selling a $20 M. Rembrandt Lion Drawing But Keeping Tight-Lipped on Plans to Fractionalize His Collection

  10-11-2025 16:28 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s hosted a lunch for American-Franco precious metals mogul, philanthropist, and conservationist Thomas S. Kaplan at its Paris HQ last week. The house is selling a coveted drawing of a lion by Rembrandt from the trove of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age art that the billionaire and his wife, Daphne, have collected over the last 20 years. Dubbed the Leiden Collection, it’s 220-work-strong and includes the world’s largest private cache of Rembrandt paintings (17), not to ment
  
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• After Fifty Years In San Francisco, This Gallery Is Moving Out

  10-11-2025 16:00 via sfchronicle.com
  
  The plan: Rena Bransten Gallery will turn into a pop-up. “I have uncertainty about whether the model that we all grew up in, going to galleries, is viable,” the gallery director says. “I need to really look around and see what people are doing.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Iconoclast Art Guitar Maker Ken Parker Has Died At 73

  10-11-2025 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Parker leveraged his extensive experience in woodworking and guitar repair, along with his maverick streak, to build groundbreaking guitars that went on to be displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Yi Zhou Accuses Actor Jeremy Renner Of Unwanted Sexual Contact

  10-11-2025 15:30 via aol.com
  
  Zhou accused Renner of sending unwanted sexual images, and of threatening “to call immigrationICE” to intimidate her. The actor denies the accusations. – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• They Were Dancing ‘Nutcracker’ When An Earthquake Struck New Zealand

  10-11-2025 15:15 via rnz.co.nz
  
  And they kept right on dancing. – Radio New Zealand
  
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• When You Have A Multi-Set Show, You Need More Than A Director

  10-11-2025 15:00 via collider.com
  
  Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, on his new series Pluribus: “The concept of the others being in sync telepathically led to us hiring our first-time choreographer, ever. Technically, I think he’s billed as a movement coordinator or a movement designer.” – Collider
  
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• Op-Ed: What an International Art Advisor and Ex-Christie’s Global President will be Watching in the Big New York Auctions

  10-11-2025 14:58 via artnews.com
  What can we expect of the forthcoming New York 20th and 21st Century Art sales? One thing is for sure: they will test the resolve of the biggest buyers in the world to compete with each other in a way that has not been seen since the heady days of the 2014-16 sales. Back then, Christie’s held spectacular evening auctions replete with museum-quality pictures and enjoyed sold totals as high as $850 million.We have witnessed the two traditional curtain raisers for the fall season, the auction
  
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• Op-Ed: What an International Art Adviser and Ex-Christie’s Global President will be Watching in the Big New York Auctions

  10-11-2025 14:58 via artnews.com
  What can we expect of the forthcoming New York 20th and 21st Century Art sales? One thing is for sure: they will test the resolve of the biggest buyers in the world to compete with each other in a way that has not been seen since the heady days of the 2014–16 sales. Back then, Christie’s held spectacular evening auctions replete with museum-quality pictures and enjoyed sales totals as high as $850 million.We have witnessed the two traditional curtain raisers for the fall season, the
  
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• A Passionate Plea To Stop Devaluing Art, And The Future

  10-11-2025 14:45 via lithub.com
  
  “For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed. … We have more content than ever, but fewer opportunities for art and artists to thrive.” – LitHub
  
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• A Christmas Carol, But Make It Contemporary Britain, And Also A Big Fun Musical

  10-11-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “Gurinder Chadha was wandering through the Charles Dickens Museum in London, trying to commune with the author’s spirit. ‘If you were alive today,’ the film-maker asked him, ‘what story would you tell?’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• When Words, And Then Truth, And Then Reality, Fall Apart

  10-11-2025 14:15 via archive.ph
  
  “Navigating life in an era of ‘alternative truths’ has proved to be a disorienting experience: How can people live together when truth has become whatever one would like it to be?” – Le Monde (Archive Today)
  
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• Why Do Men Keep Saying Culture Is Over?

  10-11-2025 13:00 via artnews.com
  Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century is a book about the art of our time that mentions only one museum: the Museum of Ice Cream. W. David Marx’s ambitious but flat-footed hot take arrives at under 300 pages and opens by citing other writers of his demographic, all of whom have diagnosed the same cultural illness: The 21st century, they insist, has stopped innovating. Jason Farago of The New York Times chimes in: “We are now almost a quarter of the way through w
  
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• Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge review – going deep in the quest for extreme landscape painting

  10-11-2025 12:00
  At 79, the British artist is still skirting real peril, questing across the planet to depict the unspoiled vastnesses shown to grand effect hereTravelling with Tony Foster comes with a disclaimer. According to the terms of the contract signed by the British painter’s prospective companions: “You must have sufficient personal insurance for your body to be flown home in case of fatality.” Or, as he warns beforehand: “There will be times on this journey when you wish you wer
  
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• George Condo Is Now Represented by Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, Departing Hauser & Wirth

  10-11-2025 10:05 via artnews.com
  Galleries Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt have announced that they will be taking on joint representation of artist George Condo. The deal means that Condo will no longer be represented by Hauser & Wirth, which first started working with the artist in late 2019.Condo has a long history with both galleries. He first started showing with Sprüth Magers cofounder Monika Sprüth in 1984, around a year after opening Monika Sprüth Gallery. (She would merge with dealer Philomene Mager
  
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